Carl Rakosi Quotes
... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'
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I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
